Word: ranks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...filed a civil suit against the IBF - the only major sanctioning body based in the U.S. - seeking the appointment of a monitor to oversee the restructuring of the organization. The impetus: Earlier this month, four top officials from the IBF were indicted on racketeering charges, including taking payoffs to rank lower-tier boxers and squeezing unreasonably large sanctioning fees out of fighters. Prosecutors argue that something needs to be done to restore credibility to the sport following a run of fights demonstrating questionable judging (see: Holyfield-Lewis I) and questionable taste (Tyson and the sucker munch...
Each competitor played two hour-long games against the player of the same rank on the opposing team. Riordan was the only Harvard player to notch a win, while Chudnovsky and Yang each had one draw...
...troops to meet its pledge to wage and win two "major theater wars" at once. But because it would take up to 90 days to move troops in Bosnia and Kosovo to a new conflict--longer than permitted under Pentagon guidelines--their commanders had no choice but to rank their units as unable to fight...
...film has its own logic: Incidents turn on luck and silly circumstances, and in the back of your mind you suspect they couldn't have really happened. The train escapes several close calls because of a German uniform hastily tailored to a higher rank, or by the outrageous claim that their train is special because it is deporting extra-dangerous communist Jews. These are examples of the whimsical and creative view Train of Life takes on practically every aspect of the shtetl's endeavor...
Koocher said he thinks Decker is better than Braude at "retail campaigning"--the art of winning voters one-by-one--and thus voters may rank her above Braude...